The BuJourney Continues...

So I'm back with my Bullet Journal post.

I got a new phone 13 days ago! No news about the stolen phone.

I really wanted to make sure I can backtrack until I'm fully caught up. I remember stopping at the November cover photo. So.. Here's more.

The November set-up was very simple if I would say. I finished 2.5 spreads in 3 hours so 6 hours total not including the daily coloring of the mood tracker.

The adventure continues

I need this.

I say that every year don't I? The thing with keeping a blog is when is the right time to do it? So I started using a Bullet Journal last year near the end of August and it has sucked me right in. It's just a really neat way to make to-do lists. That's the basics of it anyway.

The original BuJo started with Ryder Caroll.

If you know me, you know that I always tried to find ways to pretend that my life is organized. Ok, no that's not it. 😝 ← I promise that's a "stick your tongue out" emoji and not some possessed doll face. Anyway, I always tried to find ways to keep my life organized.

One Whole Year

I can't believe it! Really? It's been 1 whole year since my husband, my now toddler, and I came to the US from the Philippines. The longest flight I have ever been on, ever. My son's 1st plane ride. It was good and bad, travel wise, but we arrived safely, and hungry.

It's been a wild ride, this past year. There are so many things that has happened, it feels like everything in my life was on fast forward, but on pause at the same time. I have experienced all the four seasons, finally. My favorite, as I thought it would be, Autumn.

Auction + Church

The last weekend before Spring forward was a good one.

I really would love to say that it was the last weekend of Winter --  But I don't really know if it is or not. Anyway, I was able to attend my very first Auction. Yay! I had no clue what was happening around me and I had to keep asking my husband, and my in-laws.

My first Auction was -- confusing.
I could not really understand what the person was saying haha, it was too fast.
I also was not sure how he saw everyone who would raise their hand to bid since there were so many people!

When you go in, you pay for your food, and the ticket you get will be going to the raffles. At the door, you're already allowed to buy tickets for bidding on some stuff, but main event, if I understood correctly was for 2 guns. Auctioning guns is actually illegal, so, they auctioned "hot wheels" (similar to tomica) instead, and then you get a chance to win the guns! Pretty sneaky, haha.

Welcoming 2016: New Year + My Birthday

Wow. It's 2016 already! It really snuck up on me!

So many things has happened, and suddenly we're jumping to a different year!

My husband and I had a quiet New Yer's Eve (compared to all others who went to parties amd stuff), we stayed home with Mamaw (my mother-in-law's mom) and Llyr. I really didn't want to be away from my baby for New Year's so we opted to stay home. :) It was an awesome day nonetheless.

We went to Sam's Club for diapers and wipes, and then we headed to Walmart for groceries, and let's just say some holiday miracles happened. x)

My husband really got lots of pogi points this time.
He got me my 12 fruits, and bought sparklers, made traditional Filipino candies and desserts, and awesome dinner for New Year's Eve. Oh, he got me a new phone case which looks super awesome!



I'm so glad we got to celebrate with Mamaw too, and she and Llyr played and played, and we told stories and it was like a sleepover! The best part of it is that my family from the Philippines Skyped with us all through out of NYE. Love love love family.

Last day of being 26 well spent. x)
My mom even greeted me before the day ended. xD
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Then the next day~
I turned 27.

Haha, it was actually a fun and funny day! It's so funny because during Christmas, I was asked what I wanted for my birthday, and I answered 'a surprise birthday party'. And oh my gosh, they threw me one!

My day started ever so norma--wait, maybe not.

Kyle let me sleep in.. hmmm..
Llyr didn't even go to the room to wake me up like usual.. hmmm..
I got to take a loooong shower..
Mom took Llyr early and so I even got extended time for preparation..
I got to spend time on my clothes and make up..
But I thought it's just because we had time, and well, it's my day after all.

Then lots of phone calls arrived for Kyle, not a single one for me. They told us we were to go to church to take the tree down, so .. ok. Then we got there and mom called Kyle in, so I was taking my time and Kyle came back out to get me.

I asked him, 'is this my bday party?' Haha. He said, 'no.' あやし。。x)

We came inside and it was dark and we went to the left instead of the right side, and they said
'HAPPY BIRTHDAY!'

"I knew it!" I yelled.

Haha, Kyle said I've just always been good at guessing stuff for me xD that's also funny because before I got to open my big present I guessed what it was.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH ME OPEN THE GIFT
I was so excited about the gift, I just had to message my mama right away!

That wasn't the end! Because after my surprise birthday party, Travis (Kyle's uncle), and Cortney (Trav's girl), and Kyle and I had a double date at the Buffalo Wild Wings (as if we weren't full enough from late lunch, haha).  I was able to Skype with my mom a bit. B' dubs, as it's called, is popular for the chicken wings, which you can order from mild to HOT.  This is a special place for me because it's the very first place we got to eat at when we landed to the US. ^_^

After that, we went to a bookstore called Books-A-Million, where we got a huge discount for our haul!! Kyle has a new game, I have 3 new books, and Llyr has 4 new books! 

It doesn't even end there!! I got to fly my birthday lantern!!

It was the coolest way to end a super awestatic birthday! Yes, I made up a word! Because there is no other way to describe my day!



Things may try to bring us down, but I'm not going to take it.
I'm 27 and I think I'm starting it right.

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PH Christmas: I will miss you.

This will be my first Christmas in the United States, and frankly I can't stop but think it wouldn't be the same.

I don't want that to be a bad thing for my in-laws and all, but it's just going to be totally different right?

I've been here in KY, USA for about 6 months?
(Kyle said 5 months and a half, okay Mr. Math Wizard.)

There has been so many things to keep me from getting actually homesick.
{4th of July, Summer Bible School, Llyr's bday, Karaoke nights with Dad-o, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, taking my Permit test, the urgency of learning how to drive, new food, new places, being with my in-laws with work and play, being volunteered for stuff, haha}

But, with Christmas coming, this will be hard blow.

I REALLY love Christmas! It's not like I'm going to hate it this year, but it would be just -- different.

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What have I done..

I entered a world of no return...

Dun dun dun..

Organizing and packing.

Anyway, try as we may.. I can't bring my entire house x.x I'm a sentimental freak and I want to bring everything. We now have 4 huge bags of trash cough because I have been not taking care of my stuff over the years.

We planned to pack within the time limit of an hour and a half.^{didn't happen.}Why?

Because:





That's why. (╭☞´ิ∀´ิ)╭☞

For some reason we ended up with 2 luggage bags with 20kg each in about 3 hours, and my clothes aren't even packed yet!! (╯⊙ ω ⊙╰ )

We're probably redoing stuff :(

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My heart is exploding!

I WANT TO WRITE!

I feel like my heart is really about to explode, and no, it's not because of caffeine. Maybe it's the sugar. 

No really I want to write.

I don't have a lot of time to write -- and that sucks. I make do with what I have. I really want to be able to regularly blog. I do -- so much, and I want to have time to sit down and write on my journal, and my newly unearthed notebook without having to worry about my baby. My husband is a good husband. I have told him that. He needs to work on his daddy skills though. (I've told him that too. Bluntly, I might add.) He's been a house husband for a while now, I know he's been getting itchy to work again, and well, not be a home stay dad. I know he LOVES to play games, and he wants time alone with that too. So it's really a give and take situation.

It's MAY!

SO remember my last post about my New Year's resolution. It was broken the next day. xD; I kind of didn't start my year of writing quite well. I've been in a writing stump for 6 years or so now. I really wanted this blog to have me write more, but I guess I have unfinished business in my early years. Anyway, as I try to overcome that hurdle, I bring good news! I officially have a VISA interview schedule now! Woots!! Please continue praying for my VISA so that I can settle down with my family in the US. Of course, I would be honest and say, I don't really want to leave. Who wants to leave family right? But I know God has a plan for me, Kyle and I were picked for each other for a reason. There are a lot of great opportunities set out for me because His plans are always the best. This blog post officially starts "God's Plan for MY Year." I claim it. I receive it. In Jesus' name! Yes, I will find a regular time to blog from now on. "Not to Write, for many of us, is to die." Ray Bradbury, Zen of the Art of Writing

A Celebratory Post!

I have 1 thing to rant about and 3 things to celebrate about!^^

The bad first.

I went to work by cab today so that I can sleep for about 40 minutes or so. I arrived at 7:05JPT I had to set up the computer for less than 5 minutes and then I can go nap. BUT NO.

The internet was down and I had to go to the Old Office to use the computers there -- uhh.. how troublesome!! I want to be in my station. So I went to the other office just to log in, and went here again and asked what happened. I had to climb on another teacher's desk, and see if I can reach the plugs.

Yes, it was dangerous, and because I'm short -- even if I stretch my arms out I would not be able to reach still and I might fall down and hurt the baby! It already was 7:17JPT when other teachers arrived and I asked the help of someone, and finally...

Everything was plugged in, and by 7:22 the internet connection was back.

-_- So annoying.

It was just stressful, and there were teachers here by 5:00JPT, but they didn't know what to do -- so if I hadn't arrived early then we'd have to all wait for a technician to arrive at 10:00JPT. NO WAY. So I felt the need for this:

Since I was not able to get my nap -- I deserve a snack!

A chocolate snack!!

(I'm gonna share of course -- because I still should not have too much sweets. T^T)

NOW ON TO THE GOOD NEWS!!

1st this is my post number 101!! The last baby update was the post number 100!

Weeeeee~

2nd tuesday of this week -- I got to eat at 31 ice cream!! FINALLY!!

It was a cheat day! Lemme have my ice cream~ ღ

31 ice cream or known to western countries as Baskin Robins finally opened in our country once again, and my friends and I are one of the 1031 lucky people who could get junior ice cream cones for FREE!

3rd and the best news for today is that I'm on my 32nd week now!! Welcome 8th month count!!

Just one more month and I will see my baby boy and hug him and squeeze him and call him george Llyr! ღ

It's getting more and more exciting for me~

Please continue praying for Kristofer Llyr ღ

Oh -- also my urinalysis had normal results :3 so happy, it means the baby's healthy and will be okay too.

Thank you Jesus! We praise Your Holy name!

NERVOUS

I'm nervous!!
Tomorrow I will go to Bangkok with my friends.
IT WILL BE MY FIRST TIME RIDING A PLANE.

God be my guard and protection, please keep me, and my baby safe.
Of course my friends as well.
You will be our provider and safe keeper.
We know You will always be with us and the trip will be fun.

Thank you God for the opportunity of being able to fly to travel.

There my baby is~!!!

I'm happy! - I'm scared - I'm happy!

By now, I have seriously forgotten about what the last post was about. ^^;
I know though that I have announced my pregnancy.
I am feeling so blessed that I am going to have a baby~

Most of you (who have read all these posts and stuff) know that I am in an International Marriage. I think it's weird to call it that, but it is that. I am from the Philippines, and my husband who I met online is American. He's younger than me - we are both working.

He went to the Philippines so we can get married, and of course he cannot stay here for a long long time, as much as we want or hoped for. Through God's blessing our wedding was held, our vows were given, and our marriage *cough* consecrated.

He was able to stay here at least for two months ^^
So we were able to "play house" as a married couple for one month!
The last time he was in the Philippines, he only stayed for 2 weeks.
I've become so fat because I have someone to eat with all the time!

I miss him. -_-"
I do talk to him on Skype everyday though.
Anyway, all the *cough* trials we did worked!

Now, I'm pregnant. I'm on my 6th week (and almost 7).
I'm excited! I'm nervous, I always pray for my baby to be healthy and well~
It's a lot of emotions but mostly, I'm feel so blessed and happy~

The Two Faces of My Weekend

 

Image from Google

Election 2013 (Ph edition)

Okay... so today one of the those days I really hate have to do something for my country.

I am not creative ENOUGH!! Please help!

Check me vlogging. I'm am so camera awkward!! >_<

Why..

I'm just so depressed now.

You know how people plan things then just all of a sudden things happen and that plan never goes on track again? I hate that situation so much. Like you expect things would go well when planned ahead? Well, no. This is why I don't keep a planner anymore.

Why am I still the one who's called selfish then??....

How to de-stress?

I'm so sleepy now and yet, here I am trying to bring life to my slightly dead blog. 

I wonder why I always leave it after some time when I think I'm already active.

Laziness. 

At least I am here right now. So, today at work it was a horrible morning for me!

OMG. Someone came back. I really didn't like it. At least the meeting itself was not as horrible as the past.

It was still horrible nonetheless. I mean, seriously, my back began aching and I suddenly had a heartburn.

Even though that morning, I woke up early, I was cheerful, I got out of the house early and everything was going well, then after a few hours of being at work BOOM. -_-

Aside from that, there's good news!! HAHAHA. No more nyork nyork. (inside joke). Thank God!

So from all this troublesome things, I had to search the internet for how to de-stress. 

I found this article that tells me to:

PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR (my) NAILS.

I didn't think it would work, I mean really.. but, my heartburn disappeared and I felt calmer and stuff!

So here is the result.

picture originally posted on my tumblr.

Yep they're really that color. It looks Christmas-sy doesn't it. :3 I'm proud of it, no bubbles!!

Oh ... expect for the right thumb which I accidentally hit on the keyboard. -_-;;

I began posting more of my stuff on tumblr because of a website which I will talk about next time. :3
See you next post!!

Random Stuff

Recently I have been having a lot of things in my head that I just always fail to organize. I think I really need to start putting this mess in order. Then again, my laziness would just rise up and push meto postpone things. Yes. I am a crammer. Thing is, right now, I am feeling it again... this sense of urgency. Its a feeling like I am running out of time. I don't really know why I have this feeling,  but it's like if I don't do what I think I should do, I would forever not be able to do it anymore, and you know, regret it.

Stuff I THINK I need to do:
▷Design my dress
▷Design the invitation cards
▷Go to divi to have my dress made/rushed
▷At least try to find Tesda (though maybe it's too late for this now)
▷STUDY FOR LET
▷Re-start studying Japanese
▷Talk to people about the wedding (like catering or picture people and stuff)
▷Blog about the Education system and Teachers in the Phil.
▷Blog about Kyle?
▷Blog about SILVER
▷Actually try to buget my money
▷EXERCISE... >_<¦¦¦
▷PRAY, PRAY AND PRAY 

That Someone

There's always going to be that someone who would make a huge impact in your life.
Someone who would change you.
Someone who would make your world turn upside down and right-side up..
There will always be that person who will take charge at you and just .. suddenly ..
You feel like everything is going to be affected because of that person.